Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State
The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus has provided a pretext for many countries of the world to extend executive powers, and their digital surveillance capacities in particular. Aiming to identify how different regimes frame digital surveillance, this paper employs qualitative content analysi...
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2020-12-01
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The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus has provided a pretext for
many countries of the world to extend executive powers, and their digital
surveillance capacities in particular. Aiming to identify how different
regimes frame digital surveillance, this paper employs qualitative content
analysis to compare the government framing of digital surveillance in India,
Israel and Singapore. Although due to their different working dynamics,
one would expect democracies and autocracies to frame digital surveillance
in di!erent ways, our findings reveal an overlap between liberal and illiberal
rhetoric across the cases and point to unexplored illiberal peculiarities
within the category of ‘democratic backsliders.’ We conclude by cautiously
speculating how heightened extents of digital surveillance and tracking
may become the new normal across regime types, and how governments
might exploit and recycle these same frames to justify digital surveillance
after the COVID-19 crisis is over.
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| spelling | doaj.art-30faf48c634a4ecdae615b59e2990b812022-12-29T03:58:40ZengInstitute of International Relations PragueCzech Journal of International Relations0323-18442570-94292020-12-01554Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance StateAhmed Maati0Žilvinas Švedkauskas1Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, GermanyEberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus has provided a pretext for many countries of the world to extend executive powers, and their digital surveillance capacities in particular. Aiming to identify how different regimes frame digital surveillance, this paper employs qualitative content analysis to compare the government framing of digital surveillance in India, Israel and Singapore. Although due to their different working dynamics, one would expect democracies and autocracies to frame digital surveillance in di!erent ways, our findings reveal an overlap between liberal and illiberal rhetoric across the cases and point to unexplored illiberal peculiarities within the category of ‘democratic backsliders.’ We conclude by cautiously speculating how heightened extents of digital surveillance and tracking may become the new normal across regime types, and how governments might exploit and recycle these same frames to justify digital surveillance after the COVID-19 crisis is over. https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/71digitalsurveillanceprivacyhuman rightsframingregime types |
| spellingShingle | Ahmed Maati Žilvinas Švedkauskas Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State Czech Journal of International Relations digital surveillance privacy human rights framing regime types |
| title | Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State |
| title_full | Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State |
| title_fullStr | Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State |
| title_full_unstemmed | Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State |
| title_short | Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State |
| title_sort | framing the pandemic and the rise of the digital surveillance state |
| topic | digital surveillance privacy human rights framing regime types |
| url | https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/71 |
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